Georgia election server wiped after suit filed

[DrLove]

"Antiquated and heavily criticized election technology?"
Up here, we're still using paper ballots and these:

No hard drives.

Those are actually better than some of the ancient electronic crap still being used.

Here in Idaho we're still using the punchcards. You make your selections, check for dangling chads, toss in a secure envelope and drop it in a box similar to yours.

I've been voting absentee though for the most part - it's a whole lost simpler process.

 

[OldLady]

"Antiquated and heavily criticized election technology?"
Up here, we're still using paper ballots and these:

No hard drives.

Those are actually better than some of the ancient electronic crap still being used.

Here in Idaho we're still using the punchcards. You make your selections, check for dangling chads, toss in a secure envelope and drop it in a box similar to yours.

I've been voting absentee though for the most part - it's a whole lost simpler process.

People around here are really getting into the absentee ballot thing, too. It kind of takes the excitement from voting day, though. I hated hearing about the 20% of ballots returned via mail that had "probably" voted for this one or that one.
I liked the days when the phone rang and it was a surprise who was on the other end when you picked it up. I liked the days when everyone but people overseas voted on election day. I'm just an old fart.

 

[Aletheia4u]

This is nuts, but i'm confident that Jeff Sessions will be looking into it immediately ---- Nah!

A computer server crucial to a lawsuit against Georgia election officials was quietly wiped clean by its custodians just after the suit was filed, The Associated Press has learned.

The server’s data was destroyed July 7 by technicians at the Center for Elections Systems at Kennesaw State University, which runs the state’s election system. The data wipe was revealed in an email — sent last week from an assistant state attorney general to plaintiffs in the case — that was obtained by the AP. More emails obtained in a public records request confirmed the wipe.

The lawsuit, filed by a diverse group of election reform advocates, aims to force Georgia to retire its antiquated and heavily criticized election technology. The server in question, which served as a statewide staging location for key election-related data, made national headlines in June after a security expert disclosed a gaping security hole that wasn’t fixed six months after he reported it to election authorities.

It’s not clear who ordered the server’s data irretrievably erased.

The Kennesaw election center answers to Georgia’s secretary of state, Brian Kemp, a Republican who is running for governor in 2018 and is the main defendant in the suit. A spokeswoman for the secretary of state’s office said Wednesday that “we did not have anything to do with this decision,” adding that the office also had no advance warning of the move.

The center’s director, Michael Barnes, referred questions to the university’s press office, which declined comment.​

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APNewsBreak: Georgia election server wiped after suit filed

 

[DrLove]

Well that's not suspicious or anything.

Nah - Look over THERE at Hillary, Ben Ghazi and URANIUM!!

Hello?